[Sugar-devel] GPA Class Notes July 22 - GS

[Walter Bender]

Well, I couldn't help myself:

See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:State-game.png

It was pretty easy to code in Turtle Art :)

-walter

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Walter Bender<walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Greg Smith<gregsmithpm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I posted the full notes here:
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes
>>
>> Three high level points:
>> - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they
>> want to have more to use.
>> - Its still hard to task switch (we may try teaching them alt - tab
>> next week), find thing son the journal and move data from one activity
>> to another.
>
> They did readily pick up on using shortcut keys... I told them about
> F1 and F3 and they almost all started using those two keys instead of
> going to the Frame. Also, Ctrl-F is not easy to type.
>
>> - Conozco Uruguay is very effective at helping kids memorize.
>>
>> Walter has given the kids a challenge to make their own game. They
>> came up with 6 examples of games they want to make:
>> 1.  Guatemala. Departments numbered and corresponding to images on the map.
>> 2. Sports team logos in the US. Then find the state or city for each team.
>> 3. Presidents. Match pictures of presidents with names.
>> 4. Presidents mashup (word used by kid!). Take a jumbled up a list of
>> pictures of presidents and put them in order.
>> 5. Countries and states in North America.
>> 6. "Find me". Start with an animation of a spinning globe. Find north
>> america and show that. Find US, find MA, Find Boston, Find Allston,
>> Find Gardner Pilot Academy. One kid yelled out then find the desk in
>> the office.
>>
>> We're not completely sure which "authoring environment" to use. Walter
>> is taking the lead on that and may use Conozco Uruguay code base or
>> something else. See notes for more details. Suggestions and help
>> customizing apps appreciated.
>
> It could be as simple as a tool that lets them associate a question
> with a multiple choice answer that corresponds to some label on an
> image or map. (e.g., the map can have letters and the questions can
> ask for the letter that corresponds to the answer; no need to do any
> coordinate system mapping in this case.)
>
>>
>> We have one extra week for the kids to collect images and write down
>> ideas before they starting building the interface.
>>
>> That brings up the question of how they can tag the items they want to
>> easily find them later. That is, as they look around on Wikipedia or
>> elsewhere and find text and images they want to use, how do we collect
>> them and show them (and only them) on a clean journal view late. URLs
>> and downloaded images are very hard to find in the Journal. We should
>> use the URL name (not sure of the right technical term but I mean the
>> short name you see in browsers, e.g. www.google.com appears as Google.
>> That or anything that is more intelligible than what you see by
>> default. Will file a bug when I have a chance unless someone beats me
>> to it.
>>
>> I welcome any suggestions on tagging and collecting items. I believe
>> its just careful use of tagging and filtering but details on expected
>> work flow can save us some time.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg S
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>
> -walter
>
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